What is Ning?
Nings are social networks around central themes...think a Facebook for teachers, a Myspace for technology educators...a place to vent, share, connect, and LEARN! Ning is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks, launched in October 2004. (Wikipedia) Nings allow communities to create individual web pages, blog, engage in forum discussions. create interest groups, share photos and videos, present RSS feeds, and more. A Ning is a site for creating your own social network for personal or professional use--or both! Or join one that already exists.
Why should teachers/librarians use and create Nings?
To create class environments for interaction and media sharing
To create space for interaction and sharing with team or grade level partners
To create online book or film discussion space
Because we know that learning is a social process
To promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness (NETS*T)
To engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. (NETS*T)
To promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. (NETS*T)
To model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments. (NETS*T)
Why should students use and create Nings?
To organize or participate in social action projects
To create space for interaction with a club or team
Wikispaces is an Online collaborative tool that allows more than one person to work on a Webpage and instantly publish it. Wikispaces allows you to embed media, and upload files to the space. This Website was created using Wikispaces. Wikispaces allows educators K-12 to create ad free public and private spaces for free. - FREE Wikispaces for Educators- make sure you create wikis using that link; otherwise your wiki will have ads.
What is Ning?
Nings are social networks around central themes...think a Facebook for teachers, a Myspace for technology educators...a place to vent, share, connect, and LEARN!
Ning is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks, launched in October 2004. (Wikipedia) Nings allow communities to create individual web pages, blog, engage in forum discussions. create interest groups, share photos and videos, present RSS feeds, and more. A Ning is a site for creating your own social network for personal or professional use--or both! Or join one that already exists.
Ning used to be free; it no longer is. However, Pearson has teamed up with Ning to provide a free service for educators
It does not cost anything to join the nings below. Here are few ning groups that may be of interest to you:
Ning Challenge
If you are not already a member, join Teacher-Librarian Network. Go in and introduce yourself! Then go to http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=672799%3ABlogPost%3A53531 and leave a comment.Why should teachers/librarians use and create Nings?
Why should students use and create Nings?
- To organize or participate in social action projects
- To create space for interaction with a club or team
- Because we know that learning is a social process
- To share work in a variety of media
- To practice 21st communication skills
- To practice digital citizenship
- Organize knowledge so that it is useful AASL Standards
- To collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve problems AASL Standards
- To use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings AASL Standards
- To connect understanding to the real world AASL Standards
- To connect ideas to own interests and previous knowledge and experience AASL Standards
- To use social networks and information tools to gather and share information AASL Standards
- To organize personal knowledge in a way that can be called upon easily AASL Standards
- To use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning AASL Standards
Examples of NingsWikis:
Wikispaces is an Online collaborative tool that allows more than one person to work on a Webpage and instantly publish it. Wikispaces allows you to embed media, and upload files to the space. This Website was created using Wikispaces. Wikispaces allows educators K-12 to create ad free public and private spaces for free. - FREE Wikispaces for Educators - make sure you create wikis using that link; otherwise your wiki will have ads.Wikis to take note of: